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Recognition Events for Computer Science Graduates
Class of 2022 CS Undergraduate and Graduate Recognition Ceremony and Reception
For all undergraduate and graduate students graduating December 2021, May 2022, and August 2022, the Department of Computer Science will hold a recognition ceremony and reception to honor our graduates on Friday, May 27, 2022 in Barton Hall.
- Date: Friday, May 27, 2022, Barton Hall
- Ceremony: 5-8 p.m. (doors open at 4 p.m.)
- Reception: 8-9 p.m.
- CS Ph.D., M.S., M. Eng, B.A., and B.S. degrees will be recognized at this event.
Livestream
A livestream of the Recognition Ceremony is available.
CS M.S. and Ph.D. Brunch (by invitation only)
A Graduate Brunch for M.S., Ph.D.s, and Faculty will be held Friday, May 27, 2022 from 10 a.m. until noon. Location to be announced by invitation.
General Information
Mask policy:
In line with our COVID-19 prevention and mitigation goals for Commencement, Cornell University requires all guests, students, faculty and staff to wear high quality masks for all indoor gatherings, except when eating or drinking.
Tickets:
- None required: This is a non-ticketed event.
- There is no limit to the number of guests that students can bring to the event, but there will be an online RSVP (for students only) opening in April to get an accurate head count for the event. The RSVP will be emailed to our graduating students.
Students:
- Students should wear their academic regalia to the CS Recognition Ceremony.
- Students will line up on the Garden Avenue-side of Barton Hall (inside) where they will find their name card and line up by college for undergraduate (Arts & Sciences or Engineering), for the processional. The processional will not be in alphabetical order, hence the name card.
- Diplomas will be mailed to the home address on file in mid to late June.
Guests:
- A reception with food and refreshments will follow the ceremony. Guests should plan to have something light to eat before the ceremony.
- A professional photographer will take pictures as each graduate/award recipient is congratulated on stage and afterwards. Therefore, we ask all guests to remain in their seats during the ceremony. The images will later be made available free of charge to graduates and guests.
Photos:
- Each year, the department hires a professional photographer to capture memorable moments throughout the ceremony. Once received from the photographer, these photos are then shared free of charge with all of our students via Computer Science’s listservs and/or compiled and made available on services like Google Photos, to be downloaded and shared as desired.
Parking:
- Parking is available in the Hoy Road Garage, adjacent to the Baseball field and in close proximity to Gates Hall and Barton Hall. For your reference, a campus map is available.
Accessibility:
- Please note that guests with reduced mobility and/or limited stamina should enter Barton Hall directly by arriving on the Garden Avenue (east) side of Barton Hall—directly across from Teagle Hall. Guests may be dropped off on Garden Avenue prior to parking in the nearby garage. You can access a campus map.
- More information about accessibility accommodations for the University Commencement ceremony on Saturday including parking details.
Live-Stream Video:
- A link to the live streaming video of the CIS Ceremony via web-broadcast will be added when we have it, just a day or so before the event.
Additional information is available at the university's commencement webpage.
Ph.D. Graduates
* = attending
Sebastian Ament*
Advisor: Carla Gomes
Title: Advances in Bayesian and Sparse Optimization for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Junwen Bai*
Advisor: Carla Gomes
Title: Explore and Exploit Structure and Self-Supervision in Sequence Representation Learning
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Soumya Basu*
Advisor: Emin Gun Sirer
Title: Minimizing Trust in Decentralized Systems
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Nils Johan Bjorck
Advisor: Carla Gomes and Bart Selman
Title: Matrix Factorization and Deep Learning in Scientific Domains: Understanding When and Why It Works
Conferred: December 2021
Burcu Canakci*
Advisor: Robbert Van Renesse
Title: Supporting Distributed Systems of Distributed Systems
Conferred: May 22
Valts Blukis
Advisor: Yoav Artzi
Title: Generalizable Learning for Natural Language Instruction Following on Physical Robots
Conferred: December 2021
Di Chen*
Advisor: Carla Gomes
Title: Combining Deep Learning with Reasoning: from Mapping Species to Solving Games and Crystal Structures
Conferred: December 2021
Jonathan DiLorenzo*
Advisor: Nate Foster
Title: Domain-Specific Languages for Ad Hoc Data Processing
Conferred: December 2020
Liye Fu
Advisor: Cristian Danescu Niculescu-Mizil
Title: Intentions and Perceptions in Technology-Mediated Communication
Conferred: May 2022
Joshua Gancher
Advisor: Elaine Shi
Title: Equational Reasoning for Verified Cryptographic Security
Conferred: December 2021
Yue Guo
Advisor: Elaine Shi
Title: Privacy Protection in Distributed Systems
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Yiqing Hua*
Advisor: Tom Ristenpart and Mor Naaman
Title: Characterizing and Mitigating Threats to Trust and Safety Online
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Sagar Jha*
Advisor: Ken Birman
Title: Fast State Machine Replication for Cloud Services
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Praveen Kumar*
Advisor: Nate Foster
Title: Toward Predictable Networks
Conferred: December 2021
Hubert Lin*
Advisor: Kavita Bala
Title: Towards Robust Perception Systems in Real World Environments
Conferred May 2022
Fujun Luan*
Advisor: Kavita Bala
Title: Forward and Inverse Rendering with Gradient-based Optimization
Conferred: August 2021
Mae Milano*
Advisor: Andrew Myers
Title: Programming Safely with Weak (and Strong) Consistency
Conferred: August 2020
Andrew Morgan
Advisor: Rafael Pass
Title: The Limits of Provable Efficiency in Cryptography
Conferred May 2022
Manish Raghavan*
Advisor: Jon Kleinberg
Title: The Societal Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Making
Conferred: August 2021
Shijin Rajakrishnan*
Advisor: David Shmoys
Title: Approximation Algorithms for Datacenter Scheduling
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
John Ryan*
Advisor: Anil Damle
Title: Fast Kernel Matrix Approximations by Series Expansions
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Ayush Sekhari
Advisor: Karthik Sridharan and Robert Kleinberg
Title: When does SGD learn, and how to improve over it
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Naomi Sirkin*
Advisor: Rafael Pass
Title: Leveraging Parallelism in Cryptography
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Steffen Smolka*
Advisor: Nate Foster
Title: A (Co)algebraic Approach to Programming and Verifying Computer Networks
Conferred: December 2019
Alane Suhr*
Advisor: Yoav Artzi
Title: Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
William Thomason
Advisor: Hadas Kress-Gazot
Title: A Novel Perspective on Efficient Integrated Task and Motion Planning via Differentiable Distance-Based Predicate Representations
Conferred: December 2021
Laure Thompson*
Advisor: David Mimno
Title: Understanding and Directing What Models Learn
Conferred: December 2020
Yan Wang
Advisor: Kilian Weinberger and Bharath Hariharan
Title: Pseudo-LiDAR: Camera-based 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
Conferred: December 2021
Davis Wertheimer*
Advisor: Bharath Hariharan
Title: Improving Flexibility and Performance in Metric-Based Few-Shot Classification
Conferred: May 2022
Mengqi Xia*
Advisor: Steve Marschner
Title: Physically Realistic Rendering of Complex Materials Using Wave optics
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Maofan "Ted" Yin*
Advisor: Emin Gun Sirer and Robbert Van Renesse
Title: Scaling the Infrastructure of Practical Blockchain Systems
Conferred: August 2021
Fan Zhang*
Advisor: Ari Juels
Title: Protocols for Connecting Blockchains with Off-Chain Systems
Conferred: August 2020
M.S. Graduates
Hadi AlZayer*
Advisor: Kavita Bala
Title: Capturing and Understanding Photos Autonomously
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Magd Bayoumi*
Advisor: Thorsten Joachims
Title: Recovering Utility in the Prescience of Implicit Bias
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Roberto Halpin Gregorio
Advisor: Bharath Hariharan
Title: TBA
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Isay Katsman*
Advisor: Chris De Sa
Title: Riemannian Geometry in Machine Learning
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Samwise Parkinson
Advisor: Nate Foster
Title: TBA
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Ankush Rayabhari*
Advisor: Immanuel Trummer
Title: Adaptivity in Compilation-Based Execution Engines of Databases
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Benjamin Steeper*
Advisor: Cheng Zhang
Title: Silent Speech Recognition with Wearable Devices
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
Albert Tsao
Advisor: Wen Sun
Title: Imitation Learning for Stylized Physics-Based Character Control
Expected to be Conferred: August 2022
M.Eng. Graduates for May 2022
Ojas Agashe
Jia Jiunn Ang
Maxim Baduk
Matthew Bayer
Priya Bhandari
Michael Carlucci
Ein Chang
Xin Chen
Yijia Chen
Sahil Dev
Deva Devanandan
Yiheng Dong
Batuhan Ertas
Zhichong Fang
Andreea Foarce
Gregory George
Chengrui Gu
Yongzhou Gu
Wenyi Guo
Saloni Gupta
Andres Hernandez Arciniegas
Gary Ho
Skylar Hoffman
Kevin Huang
Atreya Iyer
Jude Javillo
Vivian Jiang
Arnav Karmarkar
Simar Kohli
Wai Yu Lam
Angela Lau
Kristin Lee
Yuet Ming Leung
He Li
Lawrence Li
Jasper Liang
Alex Lin
Haomiao Liu
Chengji Liu
Zhen Lu
William Ma
Twesha Modi
Zaitian Mou
Moughal Muhammad
Parth Nagar
Jayesh Paunikar
Eric Perez
Emily Proulx
Han Qiao
Rizo Rakhmanov
Adith Ramachandran
Connor Reinhold
Saharat Rodjanamongkol
Jayant Sachdev
Sanchit Saxena
Yi Shen
Guofeng Shi
Michael Signorotti
Orko Sinha
So, Oscar
Alaia Solko-Breslin
Daum (Dani) Song
Militsa Sotirova
Hongyu Su
Xueshi Su
Yutao Sun
Bhoomi Nikita Thakkar
Rishitha Thambireddy
Stephen Tse
Kunal Vaishnavi
Logan Vegna
Brijendra Varma Vetukuri
Sriya Vudata
Haichen Wang
Xianda Wei
Ray Weng
Ian Wilkie Tomasik
Jacqueline Woo
Yunyan (Johnny) Wu
Yiran Xu
Xinyi Yang
Yicheng Yang
Yutao Yang
Daniel Ye
Haolin Yu
Youhan Yuan
Zhuoyu Yuan
Xiaolu Zhang
Michael Zhao
Tianlin Zhao
Yifan Zhao
Henry Zheng
Alanna Zhou
Jinwen (Cathy) Zhu
M.Eng. Graduates for Dec 2021
Carlos Alvarez
Collin Anderson
Debasmita Bhattacharya
Rachel Brotherton
Jacob Brugh
Edric Chen
Shen Chen
Marina Cheng
Wei Cheng
Yuqing (Claire) Cui
Ashneel Das
Akhil Dhavala
Jack Ding
Shreeya Gad
Shuyi Gu
Jinny Gui
Elizabeth Healy
Catherine Horng
Mingxi (Simon) Huang
Brian Jeong
Sooah Kang
Man Yin Kwok
Nikita Lang
Elaine Lee
Oliver Leung
Sijin Li
Xiaoxian (Lily) Lin
Mingzhao Liu
Shenyu Liu
Brian Lu
Kyrus Mama
Rishi Penmetcha
Daniel Perry
Navindra Ramsaroop
Ryan Richardson
Ishneet Sachar
Aashna Saxena
Yichen Shao
Kriti Sinha
Devin Smedira
Zoya (Diana) Smirnova
Yuxin Sun
Brynn (Brian) Szczesniak
Zhuohua Tao
Alicia Wang
Xucheng Wang
Tenzin Wangyal
Xingzhi Wei
Pakin Wirojwatanakul
Yexin Wu
Ruifeng (Ryan) Xu
Qiyu Yang
Keyang Yu
Bohan Zhang
Jiejun Zhang
Zehua Zhang
Chengyong Zhao
Binxin Zheng
Tianyi (Sam) Zhou
Ziying Zhou
B.A. Graduates
Tayyaba Ali
Osman Napari Alidu
Jia Jiunn Ang
Michael Isaiah Aspinwall
Aahil Suraj Awatramani
Alan Aytbaev
Maxim Baduk
Anoop Balakrishnan
Rohan S Bansal
Caroline Helena Battiato
Dario Kikuchi Bernal
Jayansh Bhartiya
Jordan Blitz
Becky Gail Borrazzo
Stefan Christian Brechter
Erin Kristine Brickle
Alexander Jay Buckman
James Joseph Buzaid
Jack Callard
Cameron David Cannara
Benjamin Kim Carson
Madeleine Moy Chang
Andrew Lam Chen
Austin L Chen
David Chen
Haoxuan Chen
Henry O Chen
Joy Hangzhi Chen
Victor Chen
Sabhya Sanjay Chhabria
Jeffrey Chou
Adrian H Chu
John Chung
Owen Crane
Aidan Cuite
Anthony Joseph DeArmas
Aditya Ashish Deshpande
Andrew Paul Dettmer
Benjamin Jenniges Dohmeier
Yagmur Dulger
Carter Kent Ellison
Lauren Elisabeth Espinal
Aariz Faisal
David Fleurantin
Nikhil R Gaddam
Blake Joshua Gallay
Atul Ganju
Andrew Gao
William Gao
Alexander Gibbons
Josephene Ilena Ginting
Corgan Jon Goodrow
Rachel Elizabeth Green
Max Greenberg
Emma Rose Gregoire
Lucca Brasil Guimaraes
Jason Situ Guo
Matthew Guo
Vaishnavi Gupta
Cameron Alexander Hamidi
Michael Paul Hanlon
Christopher Paul Hansen
Lauren Rebecca Harpole
Samuel McKinley Hinson
Aidan James Hobler
Cole E Horvath
Shirley Huang
Yuhsin Vivian Huang
Vianca M Hurtado
Imaan Seraphine Islam Rahim
Ishika Jain
Grace Jia
Vivian Meng Jiang
Zhifei Jin
Janice Jung
Lily Anna Kafka
Nithish Kalpat
Peter Kaplinsky
Jackson Keel-Atkins
Sunwook Kim
Kendall Aniston Lane
Changhee Lee
Clifford Alex Lee
Daniel Lee
Jonathan Sungkyun Lee
William Lee
Nathan Isadore Lerner
Yuet Ming Leung
Jacob A Levy
Leo Leyva
Haoshen Li
Xiuyu Li
Jasper Xiaofeng Liang
Alex Lin
Mitchell Lin
Amy Liu
Chengji Liu
Samantha Liu
Simon Liu
Joshua Lee Lomasney
Christopher Anthony Lombardo
Charles Lu
Jessica Thuy Lu
Zhen Lu
Duncan T Lumia
Samuel Lye
Cynthia Ma
Naman Madan
Reza Madhavan
Varun Maheshwari
Wyatt Gibson Marshall
Samantha Autumn Meakem
Jerry Miao
Twesha Modi
Hyun Moon
Sneha Nagarajan
Sandipan Nath
Linda Wanjiru Nduhiu
Angela Ng
Justin Ni
Alex Paley
Jonathan D Pang
Varun Parkash
Nobonita Paul
Pura Peetathawatchai
Nishat Tasneem Peuly
Tarannum Pratap
Yao Pu
Amit Rajesh
Keshav Iyengar Ram
Adith Ramachandran
Lirinda Azem Ramosaj
Madalyn Jewel Redding
Connor Ye Reinhold
Cathryn Rencricca
Rebekah M. Rendino
Sophia Sarah Roshal
Catharine Sabaitis
Miah Kalis Sanchez
Siddarth Viswanath Sankaran
Rishabh Sarup
Matthew Patrick Schaeffer
Kira Michele Segenchuk
Valerie Grace Setiawan
Haocheng Shen
Jeffrey Chenjie Shen
Yuqi Shi
Dmitry Shlyapnikov
Phillip Si
David Siher
Ruiqi Song
Jack Weller Stettner
Justin David Sun
Sherrie Tan
Arthur Maximilian Tanjaya
Charles William Henry Thompson
Noah Scott Thompson
Lila Elizabeth Trepp
Connie Tsang
Samuel Mark Vacura
Isha Krishna Vaish
Sean Vaysburd
Alexander Vaziri
Nicolas Vega Gordillo
Brandon J Voepel
Brady Van Volkmann
Matthew Walenta
Haichen Wang
Helen Wang
Jamie Sylvia Wang
Zheng Wang
Zhengyun Wang
Zilu Wang
Nathaniel Wright Watson
Qijia Wei
Ray Weng
Gene Tae Whang
Eric Whitehead
John Winnicki
Jing Wongsrinoppakun
Jerry Wu
Johnny Wu
Zhengxun Wu
Benjamin Xiang
Sophia Xu
Anthony Yang
Junlin Yi
Ashley Yu
David Yu
Elaine Siyang Yu
Yuxiang Yu
Rishik Zaparde
Andrew Zeng
Yimeng Zeng
Catherine Ruilin Zhang
Hantian Zhang
Tony Ziqian Zhang
Yihan Zhang
Alice Zhao
Michael Guanchen Zhao
Robin Zheng
Tiffany Zhong
Alanna Shiqi Zhou
Brian Kaiwen Zhu
Ruiqi Zhu